Tag: assembly

• IAI Kfir C-1 – Part Two – Grey Plastic Day

  

  The first assembly day for any model can be a school in itself – the Czech and Polish kits in particular are often hard lessons. They challenge both the imagination ( Where the heck is the cockpit actually supposed to be fastened…? ) and the patience ( Is that an ejector pin or a part…

  Dick Stein

  August 7, 2020

  1:72 scale, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  assembly, dry fitting, joints

• Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Two – Ahhhhh, Chooo!

  

  Oops. Sniff. Looks like it is all together…. Well, it almost seems like that with Hobby Boss. You sit there idly scraping down a seam line…that is nearly perfect anyway…and then you dry fit a couple of parts and then you decide to glue one in… And the thing is done. It’s not quite that…

  Dick Stein

  August 27, 2018

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, subassembly, Uncategorized

  airplane, assembly, Hawker, Hobby Boss

• Nakajima ‘ Kate ‘ – Part Four – The Basic Structure

  

  Or ” When Does An Airplane Start To Live? ‘. Okay. You’ve done the interior painting. You’ve stuck on the instrument decals. You’ve decided whether or not you’ll spend an extra month trying to put in photoetched seatbelts, pilot’s clipboards, and spare chewing gum dispenser ( US aircraft only).* Everything that could be sub-assembled and…

  Dick Stein

  April 24, 2018

  1:72 scale, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  airbrushing, assembly, Nakajima ‘ Kate ‘